venture capital
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The Seed Round Guide: Why Silicon Valley May Not Be Your Best Option (III/III)
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This is a guest post by Penny Schiffer a Zürich-based energetic woman, passionate by the startup and investment world. She’s currently managing the startup initiatives of Swisscom and in…
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The Seed Round Guide: Finding & Leveraging a Lead Investor (II/III)
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This is a guest post by Penny Schiffer a Zürich-based energetic woman, passionate by the startup and investment world. She’s currently managing the startup initiatives of Swisscom and in…
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The Seed Round Guide: Is Big Always Better Than Small? (I/III)
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This is a guest post by Penny Schiffer a Zürich-based energetic woman, passionate by the startup and investment world. She’s currently managing the startup initiatives of Swisscom and in…
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Why Switzerland needs the Swiss Investment Fund
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Daniel Poffet, now graduated (congrats, btw!), did a great research in explaining what the European Investment Fund (EIF) is. Basically, the EIF is a public-private partnership founded in 1994…
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9 Learnings from The Swiss Venture Capital Report
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here. The total Venture Capital raised in Switzerland in 2014 (or at least, the fundraising deals that were published) reached CHF 457M, 10% more than in 2013. A big,…
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Financing Your Startup: Use the Power of the Crowd
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Financing your startup: use the power of the crowd » in Biel/Bienne. It will take place at the local technology park INNOCAMPUS (it’s 5min walk from train station!). We will…
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10 solutions to transform Switzerland into a real startup nation
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Bilan and Le Réseau (an association fostering innovation – why only in French?) published a Startup Manifesto. Based on a survey among startup entrepreneurs (launched by Raphael Briner and…
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My meeting with one of the smartest startup actor in the world: Mark Suster
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End of October, I had the chance to participate to the Dublin Web Summit. The event has grown up to reach around 10’000 attendees, and yes, it was extremely…
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Meet 8 promising startups from Switzerland!
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only an often necessary milestone to grow faster and which may lead to success). But the point is that there are a lot of entrepreneurs out there building interesting tech startups. On…
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Hot or not: top 10 European's startup capitals. And Switzerland?
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its selection of the 10 hottest startup capitals in Europe. London, Berlin, Paris and Stockholm are on the map, of course. Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Barcelona are also there. More…